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Show Trucks for Parcel Post. Washington. Plans for an assault on the high cost of living by extension of rural parcel post through the use of army motor trucks are being urged by Assistant Postmaster General Blaks-lee Blaks-lee to the house postoffice committee. Mr. Blakslee is asking for $8,000,000 for the rural mail service for the year beginning July 1 next, said trucks for the proposed service would be turned over by the war department without charge. Truck trains, he added, could make postal rates compete with freight rates. . |